From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: python doc available in emacs info format? Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250555858 31892 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2009 00:37:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:37:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 18 02:37:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MdChc-0005b7-TL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:37:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MdChc-00023h-8e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:37:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.perl.misc Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1250484228 29527 127.0.0.1 (17 Aug 2009 04:43:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172043 comp.emacs:98600 comp.lang.python:605317 comp.lang.perl.misc:645405 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:35:25 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67230 Archived-At: btw, is there still info format for python doc? i feel kinda sad that emacs info format has pretty much been deprecated over the past decade. About a decade ago, you still will see now and then people asking for emacs info format of docs (was the days of perl). Today, one don't hear of it. Part of this is due to emacs cult problem. See: =E2=80=A2 Emacs Modernization http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_modernization.html =E2=80=A2 Emacs Should Adopt HTML To Replace Texinfo http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_html_vs_info.html =E2=80=A2 Language, Purity, Cult, and Deception http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/lang_purity_cult_deception.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84 On Dec 11 2008, 6:56 am, Matthias wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > in programing elisp in emacs, i can press =E2=80=9CCtrl+h f=E2=80=9D to= lookup > > the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility > > when coding in perl, python, php? > > Yes, try C-h S (or similarly S): > > (info-lookup-symbol SYMBOL &optional MODE) Display the > definition of SYMBOL, as found in the relevant manual. When this > command is called interactively, it reads SYMBOL from the > minibuffer. > > Note that `the relevant manual' means an info file. With recent > emacsen on an Ubuntu distro, python arrives with info files and > everything is well configured. It also works with bash, latex, perl, > scheme, elisp, awk, texinfo, makefile, libc, or any info file with an > index. > -- > Matthias